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Spooky couple Gomez and Morticia hire a nanny to look after their new baby son - and stop him suffering an early death at the hands of his jealous elder siblings. Romance soon blossoms between the new childminder and Uncle Fester, but he does not realise she is planning to kill him once she has got hold of the family fortune. Comedy sequel, starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci and Joan Cusack
1993
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Cast & Crew
Anjelica Huston
(Actor)
.. Morticia Addams
Raul Julia
(Actor)
.. Gomez Addams
Christopher Lloyd
(Actor)
.. Uncle Fester Addams
Christina Ricci
(Actor)
.. Wednesday Addams
Joan Cusack
(Actor)
.. Debbie Jellinsky
Carol Kane
(Actor)
.. Grandma
Dana Ivey
(Actor)
.. Margaret Addams
Peter MacNicol
(Actor)
.. Gary Granger
Barry Sonnenfeld
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Anjelica Huston
(Actor)
.. Morticia Addams
Born:
July 08, 1951
in
Santa Monica, California
Best Known For:
Her long relationship with Jack Nicholson.
Early-life:
Born July 8, 1951, in Santa Monica, California. She's the daughter of famed director and actor John Huston and his second wife, Ricki Soma, a prima ballerina who died in a car accident when Anjelica was 18. She has a brother and two half-siblings. Although raised mostly in Europe, she returned to the US following her mother's death, where she began a successful modelling career. She also dabbled in acting, taking small roles in some of her father's films.
Career:
In the late-1970s, Huston decided to concentrate on acting. Early notable roles came in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Frances, This is Spinal Tap and The Ice Pirates. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1985's Prizzi's Honour, which was directed by her father - making her the third generation of her family to win the award (the first was her grandfather, actor Walter Huston, the second her dad John). A year later she appeared alongside Michael Jackson in the Disney film Captain Eo. Other memorable movies include The Witches, The Addams Family (and its sequel), The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited. She also had a lead role in musical TV drama Smash.
Quote:
'There were times when I hated my nose. But you grow up and you start to recognise that maybe it wasn't a bad thing that you weren't born Barbie.'
Trivia:
In 2014, Huston published her memoir, Watch Me.
Raul Julia
(Actor)
.. Gomez Addams
Christopher Lloyd
(Actor)
.. Uncle Fester Addams
Christina Ricci
(Actor)
.. Wednesday Addams
Born:
February 12, 1980
in
Santa Monica, California
Best Known For:
Playing Wednesday in two Addams Family movies.
Early-life:
Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980, in Santa Monica, California, but was raised in New Jersey. She's the youngest of four children. Her father was a psychiatrist who specialised in scream therapy. Ricci, on hearing his patients, would re-enact their behaviour for her mother. Her parents split up in 1993. She's never had any formal acting training, but a movie critic spotted her in a school pageant and encouraged her parents to find her an agent.
Career:
Ricci made her film debut in 1990's Mermaids and has rarely been out of work since. After starring in 1993's Addams Family Values, she became disillusioned with her education and began attending The Professional Children's School - one of her classmates was Macaulay Culkin. She made the transition from child star to respected actress with 1997's The Ice Storm. Movies since include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Opposite of Sex, Sleepy Hollow, and Monster. She also produced the films Prozac Nation and Pumpkin, and appeared in a memorable Grey's Anatomy two-episode storyline in 2006. Her recent projects include Penelope, Speed Racer, New York, I Love You and short-lived period drama Pan Am.
Quote:
'If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard.'
Trivia:
She voiced the character Lilly in Alpha and Omega.
Joan Cusack
(Actor)
.. Debbie Jellinsky
Born:
October 11, 1962
in
New York, United States
Best Known For:
Voicing Jessie in the Toy Story films.
Early-life:
Born on October 11, 1962 in New York and raised in Evanston, Illinois to maths teacher and political activist Ann Paula Cusack and filmmaker and actor Dick Cusack. Joan's siblings, Ann and John, are also actors. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor's degree in English.
Career:
Cusack got a number of small roles in films while she was studying but her big break came when she appeared in the TV series Saturday Night Live for one season. After that, she appeared on Broadcast News (1987) and Working Girl (1988). For the latter, she was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on to appear in such films as Addams Family Values (1993) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). Cusack got her second Oscar nomination, as well as a Golden Globe nomination, for her appearance in In & Out (1997). She has become well known to family audiences for being the voice of Jessie in the Toy Story films. Between 2011 and 2015 she appeared in the US version of the TV series Shameless as Sheila Jackson. Since then, her acting roles have included TV show A Series of Unfortunate Events and the film Snatched (2017).
Quote:
'I was never the ‘babe', so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.'
Trivia:
She was the first regular cast member of Saturday Night Live to be nominated for an Oscar.
Carol Kane
(Actor)
.. Grandma
Dana Ivey
(Actor)
.. Margaret Addams
Peter MacNicol
(Actor)
.. Gary Granger
Born:
April 10, 1954
in
Dallas, Texas
Best Known For:
Playing eccentric lawyer John Cage in Ally McBeal.
Early-life:
Peter C MacNicol was born on April 10, 1954, in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of five children. He began acting at the University of Dallas and then University of Minnesota. While in Minnesota, he performed in two seasons at the Guthrie Theater. A New York talent agent spotted him and told him to move to Manhattan.
Career:
MacNicol was cast in the off-Broadway play Crimes of the Heart in 1980. The production eventually moved to Broadway, and MacNicol won the Theatre World Award. It was also during this production that a casting agent noticed him and called him in to read for his eventual role in Sophie's Choice. In 1981, he appeared in his first film, Dragonslayer, opposite Sir Ralph Richardson. MacNicol is probably best known to TV viewers for his Emmy-winning role in Ally McBeal as eccentric attorney John Cage. After Ally McBeal ended, he went on to star in the drama NUMB3RS as physicist Dr Larry Fleinhardt, and he had a role as Tom Lennox in the sixth season of 24. MacNicol reprised his role as Lennox in the film 24: Redemption. He joined the cast of Grey's Anatomy in 2010.
Quote:
On his Numb3rs character: "It was probably the third in a series of people (I've portrayed) who I would call a wise fool."
Trivia:
He has voiced characters in a number of video games, including Batman: Arkham City.
Barry Sonnenfeld
(Director)
